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Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Chapter Lost and found in translation
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Chapter On the optimal weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
We work out the optimization problem, initiated by K. Soundararajan, for the choice of the underlying polynomialused in the construction of the weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps ...
Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies
(2018)
This open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical, epistemological and empirical questions ...
Redefining Global Governance
(2025)
This open access volume offers a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the current structure of global governance on tax, trade, and investment. It explores the interplay between actors, critiques current norm-making ...
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization
(2017)
Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions, disjunctions, opportunities, exclusions, ...
Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film
(2013)
Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates ...
Social Media in Rural China
(2016)
China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent ...
Powers of Divergence
(2018)
"Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation ...
LexArt Les mots de la peinture
(2018)
LexArt. The words of painting is a dictionary of terms and concepts, which, from the artistic literature, in a synchronous approach of discourse and artistic practice, describe the painting as it is practiced in France, ...
The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts
(2017)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new ...
Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty
(2019)
This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe’s Faust and Ḥāfiẓ’ Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks ...
Childlessness in Europe
(2017)
In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most
European countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this
development, as more than 20% of the women living in ...
Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective
(2015)
Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the ...
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics
(2014)
The volume discusses the notion of space by focusing on the most representative exponents of the Hellenistic schools and explores the role played by spatial concepts in both coeval and later authors who, without specifically ...
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
(2021)
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the ...
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
(2018)
The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential
readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. ...
Chapter Ki issues in Turkish
(2014)
De Vries’ (2006 et seq.) addition of ‘par-Merge’ to the extant Merger operations utilized by the narrow syntax provides a means by which to model parataxis and yet maintain that paratactic constituents (i.e. parentheticals) ...
Chapter 3 Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus as a Case Study: Using a Precautionary Risk Management Approach for Emerging Blood-Borne Pathogens in Canada
(2012)
In October 2009 it was reported that 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, when tested, were infected with a novel gamma retrovirus, xenotropic
murine leukemia virus-related virus ...
Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages
(2020)
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions ...
Housing Estates in Europe
(2018)
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in ...
Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages ...
Chapter 1 Alloy Steel: Properties and Use First-Principles Quantum Mechanical Approach to Stainless Steel Alloys
(2011)
Accurate description of materials requires the most advanced atomic-scale techniques from both experimental and theoretical areas. In spite of the vast number of available techniques,
however, the experimental study of ...
Chapter 28 Agreement
(2009)
In many respects the agreement systems of Slavonic languages are close to canonical. Controllers of agreement are often present, they have overt expression of features, and they take consistent agreements. The target has ...
Social Media in Southeast Italy
(2016)
Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. ...
Fortunatianus Aquileiensis Commentary on the Gospels English translation and introduction
(2017)
The commentary as transmitted in the Cologne manuscript consists of four principal
sections: an initial section on the characteristics of the four Gospels (praef., lines 1–
133 of the edition);20 an extensive exposition ...
Reconstructing Pharaonic Architecture in Nubia
(2017)
New fieldwork in Egyptian settlements in Upper Nubia (Northern Sudan) – mainly Amara-West, Sesebi and on Sai Island – is geared to improve our fragmentary knowledge of the settlement and population structure as well as the ...
Chapter 13 Modelling Seismic Wave Propagation for Geophysical Imaging
(2012)
The Earth is an heterogeneous complex media from the mineral composition scale (10−6m) to the global scale ( 106m). The reconstruction of its structure is a quite challenging problem because sampling methodologies are ...
Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
(2015)
Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine ...
Chapter Gog and Magog
(2016)
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, ...
Chapter The Fruit of the Tree of Life
(2014)
The Gospel of Philip, preserved only in Nag Hammadi Codex II,1 has proven to be a difficult text for its modern interpreters. In addition to its numerous lacunae, scholars have consistently been frustrated by its seemingly ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Chapter Sakralisierung von Zeit in Rom und Italien
(2012)
The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. ...
Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies
(2016)
This volume shows through the use of legal sources that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful; and at the same ...
Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down?
(2014)
In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/m ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
Sign Languages in Village Communities
(2012)
This book unites the work of both anthropologists and linguists who have conducted fieldwork in rural signing communities around the globe. In most cases, these signing communities have emerged in response to a high incidence ...
The Politics of Evidence
(2017)
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this ...
Chapter 12 The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname
(2017)
This chapter deals with tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) marking in the languages of Suriname, focusing on the stability of forms, meanings, and structural pat-terns. Despite its prominent position in the creolization debate ...
Chapter 13 Targeting Tumor Perfusion and Oxygenation Modulates Hypoxia and Cancer Sensitivity to Radiotherapy and Systemic Therapies
(2011)
Hypoxia, a partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) below physiological needs, is a limiting factor affecting the efficiency of radiotherapy. Indeed, the reaction of reactive oxygen species
(ROS, produced by water radiolysis) ...
Chapter 8 Computational Modelling of the Steps Involved in Photodynamic Therapy
(2012)
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a branch of phototherapy that has seen a surge of interest in the last few decades, due to its potential in the treatment of various cancers, infections and
heart disease.(Bonnett, 2000) ...
Chapter Person by other means
(2013)
As Anna Siewierska notes (2004: 8) ‘the universality of person as a grammatical category is sometimes called into question.’ And indeed, in some languages, an interesting minority, it is not obvious whether there is a ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th Centuries
(2014)
What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels ...
A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja – Critical Edition
(2019)
A hitherto unpublished scripture of Buddhist dharani literature, the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja has been recently discovered in five Nepalese manuscripts. This rare Sanskrit text from around the fifth century focuses on the ...
Dangerous Gifts
(2021)
From Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed the responsibility ...
Critical Theories of Crises in Europe: From Weimar to the Euro
(2016)
What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent ...
Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
(2018)
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions ...
Tibetan Yoga and Mysticism: A Textual Study of the Yogas of Naropa and Mahamudra Meditation in the Medieval Tradition of Dags po
(2015)
A detailed study of a twelfth-century Tibetan corpus of religious writings attributed to the Tibetan master Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (sgam po pa bsod nams
rin chen, 1079-1153)
Penser une démocratie alimentaire - Volume 2
(2014)
food safety - law - development - natural resources - agriculture - consumption - international trade - ecological transistion
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
(2017)
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter 11 Dogmas of Superficiality
(2015)
The article critically analyzes the characterization of Asian traditions as
'humanism' as presented in the writings by three Chinese historians.
Theater as Metaphor
(2019)
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on ...